Jeter, 38, is rehabbing a broken ankle suffered during the AL Championship Series. On Monday, he laid out a partial timetable for his return.

"I'll be in the walking boot for another few weeks, and then I'll be good to go," he told Kay in a telephone interview. “It's been a long process. What's it been, six or seven weeks, where I haven't been able to move too much? But it's healing probably just as expected. We still got a long way to go before the season starts, but I'll be ready."

"I thought it was pretty funny," he told Kay. "I guess there's a lot of things you can do with a picture. The funny thing is, a day or two before before that people were telling me I looked like I lost a lot of weight. And two days later I'm on the front page of the New York Post. So they had a little fun with it, but it's over and done with. I guess they do what they do."